Company Screenings

Type of Screenings we provide

• Supplier and partner screenings for ethical businesses
• Donor and supplier screenings for NGOs and charities
• Shareholder analysis for investors

Current and past Screenings projects include:  

• Screening suppliers for an ethical luxury retailer.
• Screening contractors for global human rights organisations.
• Raising awareness of the environmental and worker safety records of companies running the London Underground for the Mayor of London's office.

Research sources 

An ethical screening draws together information from a range of sources, including:

• Data from 25 years of research in our Corporate Critic database.
• Checks on a company's ownership.
• Press search of mainstream, business and campaign group sources.

Prices and ordering

2024 prices

Price per screening report:

• Standard screening = £550 (10 day lead time dependent on workload)
• 5-day faster report = £650
• 3-day express report = £850

Surcharges

• £150 for companies with a turnover of $5 billion or above. This is to reflect the extra time needed to research high profile companies, as there is more information to look through.
• £75 for a bespoke category/search. If we do not rate an issue or do a search that you require in your report, we can work with you to develop a bespoke search or rating which we can include in our screenings report for you.

All prices are excluding VAT.

Bespoke pricing

We work with our clients to provide the best service within their price range.

Examples of how we work with clients include:

Hourly rates:

Our rate is £62 an hour (excluding VAT). We have agreements with some clients to only spend a certain amount of time on a report, e.g. a cap of 6 hours per report. We then do as much research on that company as we can in that amount of time. We decide with the client what the priority searches and ratings are, and do those first. For larger organisations that are being screened, this may mean certain ratings or risk searches are missed out. However, a cap on hours can work well for organisations that have a limited budget and know exactly what priorities they need out of a screenings report.

Retainer service:

We work with some organisations using a retainer system, wherein they pay us a lump sum retainer and each time a screening report is produced, it comes out of the retainer. This works well for clients who have a budget set aside for procurement or due diligence checks. Reports can be delivered throughout the year as and when needed, or we can create a schedule to deliver reports in batches. 

Contracts:

We have worked with many of our clients for years, and we value long term relationships. For our long standing clients, we prefer to establish a contract to inform how we will work together. For clients who know approximately how many reports they want to order a month/year, this helps us to prioritise our workload to ensure we can cater to your demands. 

We appreciate loyalty, and are usually able to provide favourable terms for those clients who guarantee us steady orders.